Guaraní legend The girl in bloom

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Ñande Ru Guazú (Our Great Father) designated Guaraní guardians of the earth, for that reason my ancestors were very respectful of the earth and the environment, their beliefs spread throughout time.

In my province there is a lot of respect for what surrounds us, the birds, the plants, the trees were human beings at some point and consequently each one of them has a beautiful story behind.

The jacaranda, a native tree of my country, robust can reach 30 meters in height, its name in Guarani is Tupi, meaning fragrant, with many branches of great foliage, decorated by beautiful bluish flowers, these perfumed and colored The parks, gardens, squares and streets of my city, a tree very revered in my province for its history.


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In the Spanish colonization, many families arrived, among them came a man with his daughter, a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl named Pilar. This girl possessed the blue eyes as the sea, snow-white skin a beautiful jet black hair.

Spanish families created a fort in the capital of Che Taragüí Tetãmini where this beautiful girl lived with her father.

In this colony the Jesuits settled down with the mission to evangelize and to spread the love to Christ to the indigenous Guarani, in this group was a big and muscular boy called Mbareté of about twenty years of age very hard worker, excellent farmer, all day Was dedicated to the cultivation of the land, much admired for his devotion to work.

A morning pillar walked in the forest and met Mbareté, blushing at the burly boy, the Indian also watched, was shocked by the beauty of the girl, the meeting was very short but enough to fall in love, she walked the roads Of the forest, he followed with his eyes to the beautiful blue-eyed girl, until she disappeared from his sight.

Mbareté looked for the way to work as close as possible to the colony, he longed to see the beautiful maiden again, for her part she could not forget the young man who captive his love at first sight, could not remove from his head the image of the body Sweaty of the young product of his work, he remembered the boy's tight arms, his back well marked by the heavy work of the earth.

The Tupã Tenondete, does things in a mysterious way, made the paths of Pilar and young Mbareté cross again, both looked at each other in an angelic way, with words left, it was impossible not to see the birth of a love in those eyes, Nobody said a word, if they said it would be too much since she did not speak in Guarani and he did not understand Spanish.

The Tupa could see that true love between Pilar and Mbareté, sent a message to the Jesuit monk who taught the little native Castilian, Mbareté gave thanks to heaven for the opportunity to learn Spanish, was of the utmost importance if he wanted to conquer Pilar's love .

Love is wonderful does things unthought in the people, the young Indian learned very fast the Spanish language, those beautiful words of Castilian that will come out of his mouth to conquer the love of his beloved, the young man prowled the place in search of the beautiful girl White woman with blue eyes, approached the courtyard of the small church, where the maid taught the love of Jesus to the little Indian children.


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Mbareté approached the beautiful Pilar took his hands with his knees and manifested his love, the sweetest words said in Castilian, the blue-eyed girl remains mute, surprised by the words of Mbareté, turned red and corresponded with A smile, enough for the young man to know that his love was reciprocated.

Pilar knew, this love she felt for him, would not be well seen by his father, Mbareté asked the young woman to flee together, where her father could not know the couple. Let's build a shack and live together, the young lady in love accepts Mbareté's proposal.

The burly young man built a hut on the banks of the river, once the little house was finished, one night the young woman escaped with her beloved, it was not long before her father noticed the lack of his daughter, he sought her desperately for the whole colony, Somebody informed the desperate father, saying the beautiful girl was very often seen with Mbareté, the boy did not come to work on the earth something that caught the attention of everyone since the boy was a fervent worker and presumed that they could go together .

The father of the girl in her desperation to find her daughter formed a group of people to perform the search.

They began the search for the area, until reaching the river they could see a new hut, hid among the bushes where they could see a canoe in which Mbareté came, the young lover was of farm and fishing, he brought food to feed his beloved, Pilar Leaves the hut very happy to receive his beloved, arriving at him receives with a hug and a great kiss of love.

This provoked the anger of the father, came out of his enraged hiding place, shouting the name of his daughter, she looked at his father and understood his intentions.

The angry father pointed at the Indian with a shotgun, she tries to explain to her father the situation, the blind man of anger shoots, she prefers his body and receives the bullets that was addressed to his beloved.

The girl's chest was red, she was killed by her own father, Mbareté did not move in amazement, another shot was heard, striking the boy's forehead, falling on the body of his beloved.

So great was the disillusionment of the girl's father that he did not become immature by the deaths of the Youth, he ordered the people to return to the fort as if nothing had happened there.

When the anger left the angry father, in the middle of the night he remembered the image of his dead daughter, it was impossible to glue an eye and sleep.

At dawn he returned to the place of tragedy, where love ended, that love that overcame the racial differences of young people, that true love that united them forever.

When she arrived at the hut, the girl's father found no traces of the tragedy; she could not understand if, before her eyes, the bodies of the young men lay dying, with their blood stained the earth of color, in the same place as At this moment there was a leafy Jacaranda tree.

The Spaniard, the father of the blue-eyed girl, could not understand how suddenly this burly tree of blue flowers had grown in the place of dead bodies.

The Tupã Tenondete, he does things in a mysterious way, nor could he believe how that love ended in the tragedy, Prize to the young to live together in an eternal life, Mbareté turned him into the tree and pillar in those beautiful flowers of the Color of your eyes, blue as the sky.

By the shape of the strong body of Mbareté is that the tree of Jacaranda is robust and reaches 30 meters and by the beautiful eyes of Pilar, the beautiful color of its flowers.

These are the stories that our ancestors transmitted, we have a lot of respect for what surrounds us, the birds, the plants, the trees and everything that lives in our lands, at one time they were human beings and consequently each one of these Has a beautiful story to tell.


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José Luis
Corrientes Argentina